Civilizational Diagnosis
The Intimate Threat
On stalkerware and intimate partner surveillance, the most statistically prevalent threat to digital security that security culture systematically ignores
Civilizational Diagnosis
Civilizational Diagnosis
The Infrastructure of Blackmail
How organized crime and intelligence built the architecture Roy Cohn inherited
Civilizational Diagnosis
The Immortal Machine: On What Happens When Nothing Is Allowed to Die
On the alchemical rhythm of dissolution and reconstitution, and why a civilization that refuses death accumulates catastrophe
Civilizational Diagnosis
The FISA Court and the Architecture of Secret Law
On a Court With No Adversarial Process, Secret Rulings That Interpret Secret Law, the 99% Approval Rate, and What It Means When Law Cannot Be Known
Civilizational Diagnosis
The Empty Nave: On the Collapse of Organized Religion and the Question of Ancient Medicine
On institutional collapse and the human need for meaning that organized religion no longer contains
Civilizational Diagnosis
The EARN IT Act and the Encryption Wars
On Child Exploitation as a Legislative Technique, the Campaign to Break End-to-End Encryption, FOSTA-SESTA as the Proof of Concept, and Who Benefits When Encryption Fails
Civilizational Diagnosis
The Donor Machine
How cultural philanthropy became a wealth management strategy
Civilizational Diagnosis
The Deficit Self
On how consumer capitalism requires a self defined by what it lacks, and why genuine initiation is a threat to the whole machine
Civilizational Diagnosis
The Criminal Ecosystem
On how digital crime evolved from amateur hacking into a professionalized industry with franchises, infrastructure, and customer service
Civilizational Diagnosis
The Accounting
On institutional impunity, the death in the prison, and the architecture that continues
Civilizational Diagnosis
The AI Assistant as Data Collector
Your most intimate tool is also its most attentive listener
Civilizational Diagnosis
Smart Home and the Internet of Compromised Things
On the Threat Surface of Your Thermostat, Doorbell, Television, and Refrigerator, and Network Segmentation as the Primary Defense